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The well-known pop singer Dorota Rabczewska (Doda) has been convicted of insulting the Holy Bible in an interview she gave in 2009. At the time, she stated that, in the case of the creation of the world, she believed scientific discoveries more than the Bible written by “someone wasted from drinking wine and smoking some weed”. She was convicted and fined 5,000 Polish zlotys for this statement. D. Rabczewska disagreed with the verdict. After her constitutional complaint (case no. 54/13) was not upheld, she took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, accusing Poland of violating Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (freedom of expression). The text provides a legal analysis of the judgement in the context of the previous achievements of the Strasbourg bodies in matters of protection of religious feelings, including the mechanism of weighing freedom of expression and freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as the way in which the margin of free assessment is implemented under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.